Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
• Space is the breath of art.
• Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
• Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
• I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
• The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't…
• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
• Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
• Freedom is from within.
• Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
• 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first…
• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
• Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
• No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live…
• No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither…
• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore…

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